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chokedamps

chokedamps is the plural of chokedamp.

Meaning of chokedamp

Noun

chokedamp (usually uncountable, plural chokedamps)

  1. (usually) A damp consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, so called for its ability to asphyxiate.
    • "Now, when you described the Wigan coal explosion last month, could you not have gone down and helped those people, in spite of the choke-damp?" "I did." "You never said so." "There was nothing worth bucking about." "I didn't know." She looked at me with rather more interest.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Questions about chokedamps

What is chokedamps the plural of?
Chokedamps is the plural of chokedamp.

Words near chokedamps in the dictionary

  1. choked out
  2. choked the chicken
  3. choked the luff
  4. choked up
  5. chokedamp
  6. chokedamps
  7. chokedar
  8. chokedars
  9. chokeful
  10. chokefull
  11. chokeheld

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